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Jackson Vocab
definitions
Question | Answer |
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Election of 1824 | Election between Jackson, Adams, Crawford, and Clay. The House of Representatives gets the final say in who wins the election. |
Election of 1828 | Election between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. Jackson ends up becoming the 7th president |
Electoral Vote | # of votes that has to be majority or one more than half |
Corrupt Bargain | Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams made an agreement that made Adams the 6th president. After this, Adams made Clay Secretary of State |
John Quincy Adams | Won the Election of 1824 and was the 6th president of the United States |
Henry Clay | Secretary of State for John Quincy Adams and was the leader of the Whig Party |
Andrew Jackson | Won the Election of 1828 and was the 7th president of the United States. Only served 2 terms |
Gibbons v. Ogden | Court case where John Marshall ruled the federal gov't that had power to regulate interstate commerce |
McCulloch v. Maryland | Court case where John Marshall ruled a national bank that was constitutional and a state couldn't tax banks |
Supremacy Clause | Constitution states that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land and made the federal gov't stronger than the states |
Necessary and Proper | Congress can do anything it needs to carry out its powers |
Worcester v. Georgia | Court case where the Cherokee could stay on their land |
Interstate Commerce | Trading between states |
Implied Powers | Powers that aren't specifically given to Congress |
Federalism | Powers shared between state gov'ts and national gov'ts |
Reinforce | To support with additional material |
Electoral College | A group that chooses who is the next president of the United States |
Supreme Court | The highest court in the US |
House of Representatives | Part of Congress that can impeach the president. If no one running for president gets majority vote, the House gets to decide who wins |
John C. Calhoun | Argued for states rights from South Carolina |
Ensure | To clarify that something will happen |
Popular Vote | # of people who vote for a presidential candidate |
Tariff | Taxes on imported goods |
Nullification Crisis | When South Carolina refused to follow the Tariff of 1828 |
States Rights | States have certain rights not listed in the Constitution |
Tariff of Abominations | Highest tariff in United State history |
Indian Territory | In modern-day Oklahoma |
Cherokee | Native tribes that lived in GA, TN, and SC |
Seminole | Native tribe from Florida |
John Marshall | Presided over the Gibbons v. Ogden and McCulloch V. Maryland court case |
James McCulloch | Clerk for the Bank of the United States in Maryland |
Sequoya | Native American that mad the writing system for the Cherokee |
Trial of Tears | Removal of Chickasaw, Cherokee, and Chocktaw to moder-day Oklahoma |
Jacksonian Democrats | Political Party to help support Andrew Jackson's policy's |
Jacksonian Democracy | Idea that the Common man should get involved with the gov't through voting or holding office |
Whigs | Political Party that opposed the policies of Andrew Jackson |
Nicholas Biddle | President of the second Bank of the United States |
Martin Van Buren | Andrew Jackson's 2nd vice president and was elected 10th president of the United States |
2nd Bank of the United States | Destroyed by Jackson when its funds were removed |
Veto | President can deny or cancel a bill that was passed by Congress |
Dismantle | To take to pieces |
Suffrage | To have the right to vote |
Caucus System | More common man select candidates for president |
Spoils System | Rewarding political supporters with government jobs |
Panic of 1837 | Economic depression when Martin Van Buren was president |
William Henry Harrison | 9th president of the United States |
Repeal | Remove a law that has already been passed |
Indian Removal Act | Law that required the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole, and Choctaw to move into modern-day Oklahoma |
Nullify | Declare a law passed by Congress to be canceled out |
Nullification | Process of a state declaring a law to be void |
Secede | Leave a country |
Adams-Onis Treaty | Agreement between the US and Spain that gave Florida to the US |
Appeal | To make a serious request, most likely to the public |